This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry’s.

HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY(Available as single-disc and 2-Disc Special Editions) From White Castle to Guantanamo Bay, Harold & Kumar’s adventures have grown just a tad more ridiculous since the last time we saw them. The clever balance of high brow/low brow gags and biting racial commentary are intact though, and those two things (along with John Cho’s and Kal Penn’s engaging performances) help immensely in making this one of the funnier and more respectable comedies of the past year.Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: The two disc edition includes two commentaries, 27 additional scenes, a short documentary, and an interactive feature where you can alter the course of the film.

BEST PRICE*

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Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

$16.99

$15.99

*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $22.99 at each of the listed stores.

EXCLUSIVE DEAL:What? Three Mini PostersWhere? Best Buy

SHINE A LIGHT Directed by Martin Scorsese, this documentary gives an up close and personal look at the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones as they deliver two 2006 performances that took place during their A Bigger Bang tour. This should be a no brainer: if the concept sounds appealing to you, you’ll like it, and if it doesn’t, you won’t.Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: Four extra songs.

BEST PRICE

Target

Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

N/A

$19.99

EXCLUSIVE DEAL:What? Save $9 when you buy both DVD and soundtrack.Where? Best Buy

WARGAMES (25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Perfectly balancing elements of humor and suspense, this classic ‘80s thriller starring Matthew Broderick takes an improbable premise (a teenage slacker inadvertently starts what could result in a Nuclear War by hacking into a Defense Department computer) and makes it work. An improvement in terms of extras, video, and audio, this DVD is a must buy for fans who haven’t yet gotten their hands on a copy.Blu-ray? No.Notable Extras: A commentary and four documentaries.

BEST PRICE

Target

Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

N/A

$9.99

$14.98

$9.99

DARK CITY (DIRECTOR’S CUT) Alex Proyas received major acclaim for his work on The Crow, but one movie everyone seems to gloss over is Dark City, a truly fantastic sci-fi thriller. If you haven’t yet checked it out, here’s your chance, as the film is now being released as a director’s cut that runs 15 minutes longer and features improved special effects and a new sound mix. According to everything I’ve read so far, these things have taken a great film and made it even better.Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: Three commentary tracks, an intro by Alex Proyas, two featurettes, and more. Apparently the DVD also holds the theatrical cut of the film, but the only confirmation I’ve been able to find on that is for the Blu-ray version.

BEST PRICE

Target

Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

N/A

$14.99

DOOMSDAY While Neil Marshall brought back terror and suspense to the horror genre with The Descent, one of the best movies of the past few years, Doomsday has no intention of maintaining that sense of quality. Instead, it harkens back to various classic B-movies, paying homage to films like Mad Max and Escape from New York. This might’ve worked, too, but the film is far too uninteresting and derivative to engage you on the same level that those films did.Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: Both the unrated and theatrical cuts of the film, a commentary, and two featurettes.

BEST PRICE

Target

Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

$19.99

$17.99

$19.99

$19.99

NEVER BACK DOWN(Available as single-disc and 2-Disc Special Editions) A perfect follow-up to the cinematic fart that was Step Up 2 The Streets, Never Back Down is equally inept in all the right ways, amounting to yet another hilarious and satisfying “Shit Movie of the Week” (which you can check out on this past week’s After Dark podcast episode).Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: The single-disc edition will include a commentary and deleted/extended scenes. The two-disc will also include those things, plus both unrated and rated cuts of the film, training webisodes, and 2 featurettes.

BEST PRICE*

Target

Best Buy

Circuit City

Fry’s

$16.99

$17.99

$15.99

$19.99

*Does not include 2-Disc Edition, which costs $22.99 at each of the listed stores.

LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE Having not yet seen this long-awaited sequel to The Lost Boys, it’s probably a little presumptuous of me to assume it sucks. So be it. If you had watched that trailer, you’d be presumptuous too.Blu-ray? Yes.Notable Extras: Two featurettes (one of which is “Edgar Frog’s Guide to Coming Back Alive”), alternate endings, and four music videos.

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Lost Boys 2: The Tribe hasn’t even been released yet, yet Corey Feldman is already talking about a possible third film.

“The stage is set,” Feldman said of the ending to The Tribe. “So it’s really up to you, the viewer, and you, the audience, to see that final chapter comes into fruition.” “Personally the way I would like to see it go, I would like to see Edgar finally become a vampire himself and have to battle his own inner demons. That’s where it should go in my mind. I think that part of the magic for the whole trilogy would be seeing those characters that you trust, that you love, turning to the dark side and figuring out if they could make their way back. For the guy who’s out there defending truth, justice, and the American way to be confronted with his own demons, and actually have to go down the path of the dark side – will he make it out? Or has he gone down so far that once he’s turned, there’s no hope, light? Who can save him? I mean, once Edgar Frog’s turned, anything’s possible.”

I think it’s a little too early to talk about a third film, especially based on the negative fan response to the released movie trailers for The Tribe. But maybe a third film would allow them to make another Lost Boys movie, the way it should have been done.

Some of you are no doubt slumming it in the gutter of your manse’s bowling alley this weekend nursing a fifth of vodka and eternal questions, but right now the Monkees’ “Now I’m a Believer” is ringing in my ears like percussive cheese because: Corey Haim is filming his scenes for The Lost Boys 2! He’s in it to win it. Break out the peach trench coat and bring back the Giant Bedroom Swatch Watch! The photo above is happening again, and right now some dude is getting the image tattooed across his shoulders as a M.U.S.C.L.E. Man squeals on the sax on the beach. What happened to : The Tribe, you ask? It’s dead to me. The well-lit ’70s-era marquee in my head is a trend setter.

STYD reports that Haim has returned to his best character, Sam Emerson, and is now filming scenes for the film that were originally in the script. Director P.J. Pesce is filming the additional scenes, and co-star Corey Feldman is said to be involved, which means that the duo’s ongoing tension is not botching the reunion. Can you imagine a film where both Coreys appear but don’t share a scene like Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman? The world knows no such lows.

Corey Feldman dropped some foreshadowing, ruby-colored chum in the deep waters on his meta-blog, The Feldman Journal, a few days ago saying…

“I did my ADR for the film a couple of days ago and it looks really good all cut together. Rumor is circulating that we may be doing some additional photography for the film, assuming pick ups or scenes from the script that we didn’t initially get around to. Which to me is a very good sign, because the studio usually doesn’t bother if they don’t reallylikea film. So it seems your positive energy is working. I also got a chance to see some of the treatments for the comic book series and I can promise you it will help fill the gaps between films in a very cool wayâ€¦..you will not be disappointed!!”

He additionally implied that The Lost Boys 2 is headed theatrical…

“I want to say that I have been shocked and overwhelmed with the movement that you all have created on behalf of LB2 going theatricalâ€¦.it’s amazing how dedicated you guy’s are to the cause. Apparently there are several on-line petitions going on created by you the fans and they are really gathering momentum. I would like to thank each and every one of you who has taken the initiative to do this. It has been so overwhelming that last week we received phone calls from the studio asking if I was behind this.”

He went on to not mention Slash Film’s (Hunter’s) deep undercover involvement in this campaign. I’m giving it all I can, Captain. And filming for the second season of The Two Coreys is ongoing, which, in my opinion, is an amusing, genuine, and amazing marketing stunt for The Lost Boys 2, but don’t quote me in Blog Court.

Why does this film matter? Let me say this: After watching Rambo (10/10) and a few days later watching There Will Be Blood (10/10, um, I’m trying to review it) incredibly stoned, I want theatrical Nirvana in my lifetime. I want to sit on clouds and bask in colorful ’80s pulp dug up from amazingly confident dirt and given neon injections + I want to shiver in the glory of only-in-’07/’08 There Will Be Blood life-slap bug-outs. During my first visit to the DMV, I remember the smells, the instructors, the videos. I remember looking at my friend who passed when I didn’t (due to “negative attitude”), and I remember thinking W.W.C.H.D. I am able to drive an Audi because of Corey Haim. I want to watch him smile again with his mouth half-agape, eyebrows raised and the sound of a “Ahh, Ahh, aHah.” That sound/(emotion?) got me many a hot girl when I was too young. Warner Bros. better release this in theaters. That is nearly a threat.